Learn strategies for writing a publishable personal essay in a month of live classes and immediately unlock classes in a platform-building vault with many recorded lessons on essay writing & submitting, email list building, and content sharing. 

TWO Bonuses offered exclusively for the July 2025 section: 

Unlock access to How to Write a Modern Love Essay digital course and Receive instructor review of an essay of 2000 words or less

Class Description and Schedule:

 In each live class meeting, we'll discuss an element of writing and submitting an essay with an eye to all things that make an essay publishable, and we'll also hit on a quick, simple, and no-cost or low-cost strategies for building your author platform. 

All classes are recorded and meet on Zoom at Noon Pacific Time.

Thursday July 10th: Essay Openers that Make Editors say "Yes"; Taking your idea to a first draft; and How to Start Collecting Email Subscribers Without a Website or Even a Newsletter (and Why You Should); How to Easily Create a No-Cost Online Portfolio. 

 Thursday July 17th: Choosing a Target Publication; How to Get Your First (or Next) Hundred Subscribers (Even If You Don't Have an Author Website); Emailing Your List with an Email Service Provider

Thursday July 24th: Revising your Draft with Your Target Publication in Mind; Creating Authentic, Shareable Content that Doesn't Make You Cringe; How to a Use Bare-Minimum Approach with Social Media to Grow Your Email List (Even if You HATE sharing on social media).

Thursday July 31st: Submission DOs and DON'Ts; polishing your final draft.